The Confections Blog

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Today, January 23, is recognized as National Handwriting Day. That is definitely a holiday worth celebrating here at Confections! People are encouraged this day to reintroduce themselves to a pen and paper and put the emailing and computer messages away for a day. We stress the importance of this all the time and we are excited to think people may be practicing this today. According to...

What are brightly colored, multifunctional, protective and personalized? Okay, we can’t wait to tell you….our new iPad folio cases! We are so thrilled to announce this product that we are giving a sneak peak of them before we even have them all uploaded! Most of the folio cases are up and ready for view on our...

I recently started to clean out my room to paint furniture, and I came across so many old handwritten notes that brought a smile to my face. Some of these dating all the way back to my middle school years. Surely most of you can relate to the constant days of note passing in class all the way through high school. Even though these were written on wide ruled paper, I still felt the need to save these notes as keepsakes, and boy am I glad that I did. As I read through these (and...

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day everyone. Many places of business are closed today for this holiday. If you’re like me, you might like to spend your days off being lazy around the house. Therefore, I thought a great product to display our design of the week on would be a personalized pillow case. I would love to spend all day lounging around with a...

We are so excited to have our sticky note cubes being gifted at the Golden Globes this weekend! This product will be gifted to members of the press covering the event. We have been working on getting these products ready for a few months now, so we are so thrilled that the Golden Globes are finally here. Local Memphians, be sure to check out WMCTV 5 for an annoucenment of this exciting happening!!

The design of the week this week plays with different colors to create an elegant piece that is fun at the same time. With brown, green and blue tied together with a white damask pattern, you have many colors to match with a room’s décor. The pattern alone is so pretty that it looks great in other colors as well! Check out all the photos posted below to see the different colors offered in this design. You’ll be sure to find one that is perfect for your home,...

Happy New Year to everyone! We were absent from blogging for a few days due to the holidays, so I hope all was well for our Confections’ fans! Of course, with the ringing in of a new year, resolutions are at a high. I though it would be fun to find some of the most common new years resolutions and found some not so shocking results. According to a Time Magazine online...

Gifts and friendly catch up letters from family and friends are, of course, common during the holiday season. A nice gesture after the holidays are over is to write thank you notes to all who shared some holiday spirit with you. Here are some tips on how to write those thank you notes and when it is appropriate to do so.

Who should receive a thank you note?

If you received a gift in person and gave an instant thank you, then...

We are so excited to announce a new Confections product…framed magnetic dry erase boards! These are so stylish to dress up any kitchen, office or bedroom wall. Be sure to stay tuned later this week for the rest of our new designs to be up for this product. Right now, we have about 9 to choose...